Casasola began his career as a typographer for the newspaper El Imparcial, eventually moving to reporter then on to photographer in the early 1900s. He became a photographer in 1894. By 1911 Casasola was credited with founding the first Mexican press agency, Agencia Fotografica Mexicana.

He was later thanked by the interim president in 1911, Francisco León de la Barra, for having "inaugurated a new phase of freedom in the press photography." By the end of 1912 the agency had expanded and changed its name to Agencia Mexicana de Informacion Fotografica. The agency brought on more photographers and began purchasing pictures from foreign agencies and amateurs, then redistributing those photographs to newspapers.

In 1920, Casasola as well as other notable Mexican photographers founded the Mexican Association of Press photographers.

James Duncan Davidson, American photographer and former software developer born in 1970. While a software engineer at Sun Microsystems (1997–2001), Davidson created Tomcat, a Java‐based webserver application and the Ant Java‐based build tool.

Starting in 2005, Duncan added photography to his other professional focuses. He has served as the primary event photographer at several high-profile technology conferences. Since 2009 he has been the main stage photographer for TED conferences, photographing every TED and TEDGlobal event. In 2010, Duncan was the photographer for the Mission Blue Voyage in the Galapagos Islands and led the TEDxOilSpill Expedition in the Gulf of Mexico. Davidson is also known for his artistic travel photos, often with an eye for architectural details, a clear reference to his university studies in architecture.

Terry O'Neill, English photographer born in 1938. He gained renown documenting the fashions, styles, and celebrities of the 1960s. O'Neill's photographs display his knack for capturing his subjects candidly or in unconventional settings. His work has also been featured in numerous exhibitions. He was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Centenary medal 'in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography' in 2011.

Terry began his career working in a photographic unit for an airline at London's Heathrow Airport. During this time, he photographed a sleeping figure in a waiting area whom, by happenstance, was revealed to be Britain's Home Secretary. His first professional job was photographing Laurence Olivier.

His reputation grew during the 1960s. In addition to photographing the decade's show-business elite such as Judy Garland, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, he also photographed members of the British Royal Family and prominent politicians, showing a more natural and human side to these subjects than had usually been portrayed before.

John Thomas Daniels, Jr., the amateur photographer who took the photograph of the Wright brothers' first flight on December 17, 1903.

Daniels later said that he was so excited by seeing the Flyer rising that he nearly forgot Orville Wright's instructions to squeeze the bulb triggering the shutter.

Daniels had never seen a camera prior to using the Gundlach Korona view camera with a 5-by-7-inch glass-plate negative to take the famous photo. The plate was not developed until the Wright brothers returned to Ohio. The camera was owned by the Wright brothers, who were careful to record the history making moment, and also to preserve a record for any future patent claims.

Daniels died January 31, 1948, one day after Orville Wright's passing.

Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter of Romanticism born in Tyrol in 1768, considered the creator of monumental Alpine landscape.

As a child, Joseph Anton helped his father on the family farm, taking care of livestock in particular. There he learned of the nature that inspired his artistic production.

Drew everywhere where he could: on rocks, with wood coal fires pastor, or scraping the bark of trees. Towards the end of 1794 walked across the Alps to travel to Italy. Was immediately enthusiastic about the masterpieces of Italian painting, coming to Rome in early 1795.

Since 1803, Koch began touring the picturesque surroundings of the Roman countryside to the village of Olevano Romano, which made ​​for more than thirty years his summer residence and source of artistic inspiration.

At fifty-seven years old Koch turned to a new technique: the fresco. He finished Philipp Veit decorations that had started in the casino of his Villa Massimi, making frescoes of Hell and Purgatory, nowadays restored. He worked until his death in 1839.

After he had spent some time at Blackheath proprietary school, his mother determined that he should follow the strong bent towards art which he had already shown. She took him to Antwerp, where she sent him to the Academy as a student of painting. From Antwerp they moved after a time to Munich. There Ford studied under Wagmüller, who advised him to transfer his attention to modelling, which he did.

He was one of the first English sculptors to publish small replicas of his statues, which did much to extend his reputation.

In portraiture he may be said to have achieved his greatest success. His busts are always extremely refined and show his sitters at their best.

Joaquín Torres-García, constructivist painter, teacher and writer born in Montevideo Uruguay in 1874.

In 1891 he moved with his family back to Mataró, Catalonia and then to Barcelona. Torres-García took painting lessons with Josep Vinardell. His first oil painting was made in 1891 in Mataró, at age 17.

In 1894 he entered the 'Official School of Fine Arts in Barcelona', and also attended the Academia Baixas and Artistic Circle of San Lucas.

In 1903 he worked with Antonio Gaudi and participated in the Noucentisme movement.

Between late 1942 and early 1943 the first meetings of the Taller Torres-García performed. At the workshop, Torres-García gave painting classes to young artists and renovate Uruguayan painting. His idea was to teach exclusively Planist painting, based strictly in plain of color, line and geometry.

Helen "Elena" Escobedo Fulda, Mexican sculptor and installation artist born in 1934. Her career as an artist spanned more than fifty years. Escodebo unveiled projects throughout the world, including Mexico, Latin America, the United Kingdom, the United States and New Zealand.

Escobedo was born in Mexico City to a Mexican father and an English mother. She received a bachelor's degree in humanities. Helen earned her master's degree in sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London. Her first solo art show was held at the Galleria de Arte Mexicano in 1956.

She served as the director of the Museo de Arte Moderno and the Department of Museums and Galleries of the UNAM. She was a member of The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium. Escobedo was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowhsip in 1990.

Ivan KonstantínovichAivazovsky (Иван Константинович Айвазовский), Russian painter of Armenian descent who was born in 1817, famous for his seascapes.

In 1833 he entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, two years after receiving the silver medal in an art contest for his work Aerial Study Over the Sea. This painting was chosen to decorate the Winter Palace. In 1841 began a five-year voyage that would take him to various countries, including Italy, Portugal, Spain, France, UK and the Netherlands. In 1842 he met the famous landscape painter Turner. On his return to Russia in 1844, he was appointed as an academic of the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Two years later he was appointed professor at the same institution.

In 1848 he held his first exhibition in Moscow. In 1853 participated in archaeological excavations in Theodosia, was exposing numerous works of art which became part of the collections of the Hermitage.

In 1857, after a brilliant exhibition of his works in Paris, Aivazovsky was awarded the Legion of Honor. In 1869 he visited Egypt. He died in 1900.

In Washington Powers's gifts soon awoke attention. But in 1837 he moved to Italy and settled on the Via Fornace in Florence, where he had access to good supplies of marble and to traditions of stone-cutting and bronze casting. He remained in Florence till his death, though he did travel to Britain during this time. He developed a thriving business in portraiture and "fancy" parlor busts, but he also devoted his time to creating life-size, full-figure ideal subjects, many of which were also isolated as a bust. In 1839 his statue of Eve won the admiration of the leading European neoclassical sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsen. In 1843 Powers produced his most celebrated statue, The Greek Slave, which at once gave him a place among the leading sculptors of his time.

Henry Spencer Moore, British sculptor born in 1898, known for his abstract sculptures of bronze and marble that can be seen in many parts of the world.

Although in his early Moore followed the romantic style of the Victorian era, later developed his own style influenced by several Renaissance and Gothic artists such as Michelangelo, Giotto and Giovanni Pisano and the Toltec-Mayan culture. The first works of Moore were performed using the technique of direct carving, but in the late 1940s began to mold the figures in clay or plaster before finishing the work in bronze using the techniques of lost-wax or sand casting.

His works generally represent abstractions of the human figure, as a mother and child or reclining figures. Most of his sculptures depict the female body except those made during the 1950s when he sculpted family groups. His sculptures often have gaps and wavy shapes, inspired, according to some critics, by the landscapes of Yorkshire, his home place. He died in 1986.

Frans Masereel, Flemish painter and graphic artist born in 1889 who worked mainly in France. He is known especially for his woodcuts. His greatest work is generally said to be the wordless novel Mon Livre d'Heures (Passionate Journey). He completed over 20 other wordless novels in his career. Masereel's woodcuts strongly influenced the work of Lynd Ward and later graphic artists such as Clifford Harper and Eric Drooker.

He moved to Ghent in 1896, where he began to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in the class of Jean Delvin at the age of 18. In 1909 he went on trips to England and Germany, which inspired him to create his first etchings and woodcuts. In 1911 Masereel settled in Paris for four years and then emigrated to Switzerland, where he worked as a graphic artist for journals and magazines. His woodcut series, mainly of sociocritical content and of expressionistic form concept, made Masereel internationally known.

Jean Philippe ArthurDubuffet, French painter and sculptor born in 1901, one of the most famous of the second half of the twentieth century. He studied painting at the Académie Julian, but after six months he left to study independently.

In 1924, doubting the value of art, he stopped painting and took over his father's business selling wine. He took up painting again in the 1930s, but again stopped, only returning in 1942 for a long time. His first solo exhibition was in 1944. Was approached to Surrealism in 1948 and later to Pataphysics in 1954.

Influenced by Hans Prinzhorn's book "Artistry of the Mentally Ill" Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut (raw art) for art produced by non-professionals working outside aesthetic rules, such as the art of mental patients, prisoners and children. He formed his own collection of such art, including artists such as Aloïse Corbaz, Alfredo Pirucha and Adolf Wölfli. Dubuffet sought to create an art as free from intellectual concerns as Art Brut, created elementary and childish figures and often cruel (he was inspired by the drawings of children, criminals and insane) buffs, morbid characters as women his series "DAMES" or subhuman, deformed figures, as absurd and grotesque "BEARD" cycles. He died in 1985.

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte, French realist painter and etcher born in 1844, whose primary subject matter was of rural scenes depicting the peasant worker.

He was a student of Lecoq de Boisbaudran, he gained recognition after his show in the Paris Salon in 1864.

His many awards include the French Legion of Honour (1884) and the Grand Prize at the Exposition Universelle in 1889.

Lhermitte’s innovative use of pastels won him the admiration of his contemporaries. Vincent van Gogh wrote that "If every month Le Monde Illustré published one of his compositions ... it would be a great pleasure for me to be able to follow it. It is certain that for years I have not seen anything as beautiful as this scene by Lhermitte ... I am too preoccupied by Lhermitte this evening to be able to talk of other things."

Lhermitte is represented in the collections of museums around the world, including Amsterdam, Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Florence, Montreal, Moscow, Paris, Rheims, and Washington.

The images of Samantha Wall are an emotional reflection of her models, a special moment chosen from a number of photographs that the artist selected with special care to make them the basis on which to build her drawings. In them coexists an hyper realistic detail with diluted backgrounds; precise strokes with blurred contours, creating a mixture that is pure expression and mood. A different, enigmatic, sometimes disturbing, and deeply thoughtful work.

«Emotions, drives, compulsions, desires—these internal forces determine how we position ourselves in the world and construct interpersonal bonds. These imperceptible experiences originate from within the unconscious mind and radiate through the strata of one's being. Introspective emotions such as shame, humiliation, and pride provide opportunities for self-reflection that have the potential to expose these internal mechanisms. Private encounters within the self are revealed within these moments of hyper awareness. My drawings are a result of mining my own experiences and correlating emotional states to expose the internal negotiations between my sense of self during these moments of acute visibility.»

«In the event of a disaster we are urged to be prepared. Urged to have earthquake kits, heed tsunami warnings, and keep reserves of food and water. Urged to have safety protocols and emergency contacts. Urged to have a backup plan, maybe two. Backup everything… just in case. However, just in case seems more certain every day as reality takes on the texture of science fiction.»

"En caso de desastre... / In the event of a disaster" (detalle / detail)

«My experience navigating multiraciality in Korea, and then the United States serves as the catalyst for my current drawing project. I photograph and interview multiracial women to gather source material and to elicit an interpersonal connection during the process. The exchange of emotions and ideas between the model and myself shapes the outcome of each photo shoot, producing unpredictable and idiosyncratic results. I then comb through hundreds of digital photographs, searching for one that captures more than a portrait. I am searching for an interior and private space; an in-between moment arrested by chance that captures the figure between expression and release. That image becomes the kernel of a drawing and with graphite, charcoal or ink I amplify and enhance its distinctive quality, revealing an affective identity woven from my own emotions and that of the model. Through this work I am exposing the plurality of emotions that sculpt human subjectivity. The drawings of these women are portals into the human psyche, a place where emotions call out and perceived racial boundaries dissolve.»

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